U.S. Built Custom Bicycles in Titanium and Titanium-Carbon Mix
U.S. Built Custom Bicycles in Titanium and Titanium-Carbon Mix
Formerly known as the Elium SLX, Elium SG, Elium Race, and Elium.
This is Patrick’s Elium SL with Pointed Panel paint scheme, finished out with SRAM Red components, another collaboration with our friends at High Gear Cyclery in Stirling, NJ.
Patrick says:
I just wanted to send a quick thank you to the entire team that built my frame. The process was thorough, simple and fast!! The frame is beyond all my expectations and looks simply amazing.
Normally I’d bail on an afternoon ride at the end of October if I knew I had to be back in time to shower and dress in order to make the three o’clock shuttle. That’s too much pressure. In Vermont, however, a few weeks past peak foliage is still a feast for the eyes. My girlfriend and I were in Burlington for a friend’s wedding, and brought bikes on the off chance we could squeeze in a leaf peeping jaunt prior to the festivities. Midday Saturday presented us with about two hours of down time, so we decided to take advantage even if we had to hurry.
We suited up and shoved off, traveling south towards Mt. Philo. A few miles out of town and the hills began to roll. Red and yellow may have been lacking but orange made up for their departure in grand form, blanketing everything that wasn’t Lake Champlain with the rusty colors of autumn. With each up we’d get a postcard worthy view, albeit brief, before careening back down. Over and over again. The higher we climbed, the better the view. By the time we reached the base of the mountain, it seemed like we could see the entire valley. We weren’t craving any more climbing, so when the park ranger explained that the road to the top was closed for a car race, we decided to ride around it instead. The extended loop meant I might not have time to iron my shirt, but I had a sweater I could wear over it, so we carried on. A few farms, hundreds of cows, and a covered bridge later, we were on the way back to the hotel.
A powerful tail wind helped our time crunch and had us back in just enough time to swap Lycra for dress clothes. I’m writing this down to serve as a lesson for me, and any of you who also opt to sit out short rides, because in just two hours we had a ride I’ll remember for a lifetime.
This is Wayne’s Elium SL with Half & Half paint scheme in Amber Ale and bare titanium. We built this for Wayne with our good friends at Get-a-Grip in Chicago.
Wayne says:
I wanted to let know that I picked up my new Elium SL last Wednesday (6/5) and have since put about 180 miles on it. First, let me say the bike is stunning!! Second, the fit, ride and performance of the bike is incredible!! The bike has exceeded any expectations I had.
Thanks to you and the Seven team for making me a Seven customer for life.
Written by Ingrid Abramovitch
With an apartment in New York’s Museum Tower, Glenn D. Lowry, director of the adjacent Museum of Modern Art, doesn’t literally live above the shop—but just about. “I have a 400-foot commute,” he says. “I love it.” If he burns few calories getting to work, he more than compensates with his spare-time pursuits: This former bike and ski racer still engages in both sports with vigor. Married since the age of 19 to his wife, Susan, a Montreal-born landscape architect, Lowry was enrolled as a pre-med student when he took a freshman course in Islamic and Indian art at Williams College. “The first slide went up, and I never looked back,” says Lowry, who became a scholar of Islamic art before assuming leadership of the Art Gallery of Ontario and then MoMA. “This is an utterly thrilling, enjoyable, engaging job,” he says of his role as head of one of the world’s most beloved art institutions. “It tests all of your skills, all of the time.”
A well-made bike is a thing of beauty—and less expensive than a midlife crisis.
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No other technology I can think of matches the bicycle in beauty, efficiency, and power to do good. Its design, fundamentally resolved a century ago, wastes nothing. Twenty pounds of bike can replace 3,500 pounds of car, get you to work nearly as fast (with a smile on your face), and harm no living thing in the process. Many bicycle designs have risen to the level of art—Cinelli racing bikes from the 1960s, ageless Raleigh 3-speeds, the tricycle that all three of my children rode (with the ingenious removable push handle that saved my back)—but if you’re feeling generous, I’ll take an Elium SL from Seven Cycles.
Bruce D. Snider’s career in residential architecture and construction stretches back more than 25 years, and includes a Bachelor’s degree in environmental design and 14 years as a writer and editor for Hanley Wood magazines. A senior editor for residential architect and CUSTOM HOME, he lives with his wife and three children on the coast of Maine. He keeps his wits sharp by taking on the occasional design project, battling the ravages of age on his family’s 19th century Greek Revival house, and meditating on the relationships among architecture, planning, health, happiness, and the environment from the saddle of his road bike.